I went back and did some research. In the 2012-2013 National Championship Season the Huskies played the following while still in the Big East:
#164 College of Charleston
#161 Wake Forest
#236 Colgate
#292 Oakland
#255 Oregon (Yes, they were THIS bad back then.)
Stanford by comparison played:
#160 Santa Clara
#149 Hawai'i
#181 Long Beach State
#211 UC Davis
As a fan, I absolutely support the idea that teams should be scheduling up to tougher teams -- but sometimes it's a privilege for some of these teams to play in front of fans in Starkville, Storrs, Maples, and other arenas. I also might speculate that teams like Oregon State have a MUCH harder time finding quality opponents that are within reasonable travelling distance on a yearly basis as opposed to Virginia who can drive to plenty of schools.
#66 Virginia Tech
#110 Old Dominion
#37 James Madison
#54. Georgetown
#77 Radford
#75 American
That's just off the top of my head. There may be other schools I'm not thinking of. Oregon by comparison has....
#104 Portland State.
So, yes, we can nitpick Mississippi State's cupcakes, but I will always defend teams out West given the huge challenges of scheduling these teams face while maybe only being able to make an east coast swing once or twice a year. I don't exactly know what the answer is apart from looking more into how often quality teams from the east make the trip west.